Remembering René Char on his birthday 🎂 🎨 Victor Brauner, 1934 "Illumination was his theme, his method — 'For me lightning lasts,' Char declared. His work is an essay in revelation." - Susanne Dubroff - ThreadSky

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dean.bsky.social • 11 days ago

Remembering René Char on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Victor Brauner, 1934

"Illumination was his theme, his method — 'For me lightning lasts,' Char declared. His work is an essay in revelation."
- Susanne Dubroff

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dean.bsky.social•11 days ago

René Char with Albert Camus in Isle-sur-Sorgue, Vaucluse, 1940

dean.bsky.social•11 days ago

René Char with Paul Eluard, c. 1940

Martin Heidegger called Char's poetry "A tour de force into the ineffable."

dean.bsky.social•11 days ago

René Char with André Breton in Marseilles, 1941

That year, Breton left for America, & Char stayed behind to work, as "Captain Alexandre", with the Resistance.

nmackenzie.bsky.social•11 days ago

On board the cargo ship Paul Lemerle, which arrived in Martinique toward the end of April 1941, were Victor Serge and his son, Wifredo Lam and Helena Holzer, André Breton and his wife and daughter, Germaine Krull, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Minna Flake, Jacques Rémy, and Anna Seghers

dean.bsky.social•11 days ago

The Surrealist Constellation, by Valentine Hugo, 1932

Portraits of Paul Éluard, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, birthday boy René Char, Benjamin Peret, René Crevel

dean.bsky.social•11 days ago

BTW, in 1960 Char was to have been in the Facel Vega with Albert Camus & Michel Gallimard that killed them both, but he took the train instead.

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